Sharing printer on Ubuntu Linux with Windows

by M.el Khamlichi

Please share

Updated 26-04-2013: Got Ubuntu Linux server to share it’s printer with Windows XP. After setting up samba (i.e. installing the samba package) and getting it to a state where the server PC appeared in the workgroup (make sure workgroup has same

name on all computers). Also make sure Ubuntu knows about the printer. CUPS, the unix printing thing, is installed by default on Ubuntu and all the above is too trivial to comment on. Unfortunately, sharing the printer is not so trivial, you have to edit config files and reboot daemons: but, hey, we love that or we wouldn’t use Linux?